Singing (along with humming) is one of the highlights of my, um, repertoire. 

Thanks! I was unaware until now of the sequel, 12foot4.com!

This. Every time I’ve bought a house, the appraisal came in at exactly the agreed upon price. Amazing.

Who spells it without a ‘t’?

You’d be surprised.  I know someone who has $1000s in credit card debt but still has a maid come in.

And of course, you are submitting your share of their FICA and Medicare taxes, right? And paying their unemployment insurance, right?

If they don’t give you your deposit back, anchor a boat with giant speakers 30 feet offshore from their house and blast loud music 24 hours a day until they give in.

Expense? But I do completely agree with you.

The story has nothing to do with the headline.

I mean in addition to the generous amount of mayo IN the tuna salad itself, I slather the bread with mayo.

Question: am I nuts for putting mayo on a tuna salad sandwich? My wife thinks so.

If the roles were reversed and it was a woman writing in about a man, the calls to “just kick him right out of the house, girl” would be deafening.

Lay down concrete and paint it green. This is known as “Italian grass.”

1) They create a cleaner look than can be achieved by running the drywall directly down to the floor.

Ah, the dreaded “Sync Up” meeting. Whenever I get an invite to one of these, my heart, um, sinks.

My #1 advice to young folks is “take care of your teeth.” Bad teeth will have a severe negative impact on your physical, emotional, and financial well-being. This is coming from someone who spent his teens and twenties in the dental wilderness, so to speak.

This is true for every mortgage “lender” - the loan immediately gets packaged up and sold, while the originator keeps both the fees and the spread between the cost of borrowing short term and the cost of borrowing long term.

They typically charge a fee for their service. Something like 1% I think.

Use dehumidifier water to water plants.

An “all-cash” offer does not preclude the buyer getting a mortgage. It just means there is no mortgage contingency on the offer - i.e. you can’t back out if you fail to get a mortgage and you’re committing to a timeline that does not include the mortgage processing. In the end the seller doesn’t care a whit where the…